Ask stupid questions and you'll get a stupid answers, was: Technological advantages over Linux

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:30:15 +0000 (UTC), Paul Pathiakis  wrote:
>On Friday, July 24, 2020, 11:03:53 AM EDT, Ralf Mardorf wrote:  
>>On 2020-07-24 08:39, Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions wrote:  
>>>Am I an infidel?  
>>
>>"the only dogma allowed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
>>is the rejection of dogma"
>
> Ahhhh.... A fellow pastafarian. :)

There's just one important difference in the computer realm.

The user can understand, read the source code of a program,
troubleshoot/bisect FLOSS and even fork discontinued software after
gaining the required knowledge or the user can rely on a
relatively huge community. 

Whatever knowledge the user or even the hugest community has got,
there's more or less nothing that could be done, when using restricted
software. The user needs to trust business people, who could decide
more or less what ever they want, at any time.